Welcome to the Archaea Live-Action Role-Playing and Wargaming Information
page!

Archaea is an independent medieval, high fantasy live-action role-playing
and padded-weapon wargaming (LARP/W)
game system designed and written by Edmond Y. Chang.
Archaea invites beginner and advanced live-action role-players to
explore a game rich in action, color, magic, and story. Archaea offers:

• a fast, easy-to-learn, and sensible padded-weapon
combat system;
• a point-based, skill-based
character creation system with over
50 different
skills and abilities that allows players to fully
tailor and personalize their characters;
• an amazing and complete
magic system with ten schools of magic with
over 250 spells;
• a specialized and rigorous ritual magic system called
misticism;
• and finally a comprehensive and detailed
world with over two-thousand
years of history, 20 distinct provinces, and 25 character
organizations.

The Archaea Knowledge Base

Choose any of the following topics for more details on the rules and
descriptions of the game.

The original Archaea LARP/W group began in 1992 in the Washington, DC
metropolitan area bringing players a new and uniquely different
live-action fantasy gaming experience. If you are looking to play
Archaea in the Maryland/DC/Virginia area, visit the
MD/DC/VA Archaea Group website for
details on upcoming events and locations. (This group is currently inactive.)